STEMIE Coalition

NICEE

“If invention is a pebble tossed in the pond, innovation is the rippling effect that pebble causes. Someone has to toss the pebble. That’s the inventor. Someone has to recognize the ripple will eventually become a wave. That’s the entrepreneur.” — Tom Grasty, PBS Idea Lab

2016 National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo (NICEE)

The National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship Expo (NICEE)

May 20 – 21, 2016

2016 NICEE Winners List – coming soon

This STEMIE Coalition-fueled National Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship (NICEE) event is an annual celebration of K-12 inventors and entrepreneurs from across the U.S. This far-reaching forum is the marquee event of The STEMIE Coalition. The event provides a live, in-person opportunity for youth inventors and entrepreneurs in grades 4-12 to display their critical thinking skills through inventing, innovating, and entrepreneurial activities.

This is an invitation-only event. The goal is to inspire tomorrow’s youth by creating this national showcase those whose efforts embody America’s inventive and entrepreneurial spirit. It’s the youth invention and entrepreneurship equivalent of the Intel Science and Engineering Fair.

Each year, student “winners” from affiliate member youth invention and entrepreneurship competitions across the U.S. are invited to attend NICEE. The event acts as a U.S. national “finals” competition of local, regional, state and sectional invention competitions across the U.S. “Feeder” events will not only include invention conventions and entrepreneurship competitions across the U.S., but also science fair and engineering competitions wherein projects meet the submission requirements of the NICEE event.The 2016 NICEE was held May 20-21, 2016, 2017 in Alexandria, VA.

Check out our video on NICEE 2016!

2018 National InventionConvention

The Henry Ford Museum, May 31 - June 2: We are bringing 500 student inventors and entrepreneurs to Dearborn, Michigan to showcase their innovative ideas!

Each student is a winner of their underlying state-level competition, and their state's representative of thousands of kids who each year learn core invention and entrepreneurship skills in their K-12 schools.